GRISWOLD’S EDITION OF POE’S WORKS

The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by Rufus W. Griswold. 4 vols. (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856). When
Griswold edited the first two volumes of the Works, late in 1849, he did not make use of the J. Lorimer Graham copy of The
Raven and Other Poems of 1845 because it came into his hands too late. Obviously he sent the printer the copy from which Poe had
torn the final leaf — page 91, containing the early “To Helen” — to send to Mrs. Whitman. Of all the poems in
the 1845 volume, only this one was not included in Volume II of the Works with the texts of the other poems. It did appear,
however, in Volume I, in Lowell’s sketch of Poe originally written for Graham’s Magazine. To the poems from the
1845 collection Griswold added eleven poems of 1846-1849 (probably from corrected clippings). One poem of eight lines, “To
— —” (“I heed not”), omitted from the 1845 Raven, though marked for abridgment, not omission, in
the Herring Al Aaraaf, is also given in the Works in a new form, abridged and improved; Griswold used a manuscript which
is now in the Harvard College Library.

Volume I. Tales (1850): To Helen [J] in Lowell’s “Edgar A. Poe”; To One in Paradise
[Q] in “The Assignation”; The Haunted Palace [Q] and (untitled) Couplet [E] in “The Fall of
the House of Usher”; Motto for “William Wilson” [E]; (untitled) The Conqueror Worm [K] in
“Ligeia”; (untitled) Motto for the Gold-Bug [C].